Chicken Vegetable Lasagna

If I were to be a classic 1950's housewife my name would be Martha. I'd be married to Chip and we'd have 2 beautiful children, Kathy and little Johnny. Chip would come home from a long day at work, complaining about taxes and I would greet him at the door with this meal, right here, on the table.

Seriously, guys, this chicken vegetable lasagna will knock your socks off AND it won't make you feel guilty for having seconds (or thirds... ).

you will need:

2 24 oz. jars of pasta sauce
2 carrots diced (about 1/2 c.)
1 stalk celery diced (about 1/2 c.)
3 kale leaves, chopped  (about 1 c.)
1/2 green pepper, chopped (about 1/2 c.)
1/2 red onion, diced (about 1/2 c.)
1/2 eggplant, sliced
1 med. zucchini, sliced
1 pkg. lasagna noodles
1 cup mushrooms sliced
3 large chicken breasts, chopped (about 2 c.)

 Preheat the oven to 425 and get out everything you will need.

 Start by chopping up your kale,

 Carrots,

 celery,

 green pepper,

 and onion.

Mix it all in a big bowl with your pasta sauce and your chicken. (I forgot to include this step... I KNOW, i know... i'm still working on the "being a real blogger" thing.. but dice your chicken and brown on the stove for about 10 min. - It doesn't have to be completely done. It will cook more in the oven.)

When it's all mixed up it should look a little something like this:

 Then get your eggplant, zucchini and mushrooms.

 Slice it up as thin as you can.

 Put a thin layer of plain sauce on the bottom of the pan.

 Then lasagna noodles.

Then sauce.

Then eggplant,

Then sauce.

And then more noodles and more sauce

Then zucchini.

Then sauce

Then noodles, sauce, mushrooms and sauce. (PHEW. As if you needed all those pictures. Basically just follow the "sauce, noodles, sauce, veggie" pattern.)

Cover with foil and throw it in the oven for 40 min.

Then remove the foil and bake for another 10 min. If you are a lucky son of a gun who can eat dairy (I hate you), you can add some mozzarella cheese on top for the last 5 min. or so. But you really don't need it. This lasagna will make you run to the closest southern baptist church and sing praises to Jesus.

So there you have it kids! "knock-your-socks-off-sing-praises-to-jesus-kiss-your-momma-its-so-good"chicken vegetable lasagna.

 BAM. Now go eat your vegetables.